• DocumentCode
    961028
  • Title

    Potential broad-band services

  • Author

    Midwinter, John E.

  • Author_Institution
    Post Office Research Centre, Suffolk, England
  • Volume
    68
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1980
  • Firstpage
    1321
  • Lastpage
    1327
  • Abstract
    Optical fibers offer many new opportunities to system planners interested in broad-band video or other services. This paper examines the existing and foreseen optical component technology and discusses how it might be exploited. The wide-band systems already announced are reviewed and the possible development of a future wide-band integrated network from the existing community antenna television system (CATV) and telecommunications networks is discussed.
  • Keywords
    Bandwidth; Facsimile; Helium; Optical fiber networks; Optical signal processing; Postal services; Telephony; Video signal processing; Videoconference; Wire;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1980.11852
  • Filename
    1456121